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Court of Appeal due to rule on legal issues arising out of ‘Colston Four’ case

The bronze memorial to the 17th-century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol on June 7 2020.

The Independent UK

Jeremy Corbyn libel action settled ahead of trial

Political blogger Richard Millett, who was suing former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for libel, has dropped his case.

The Independent UK

California Chief Justice on Bumble Bees as Fish (and Statutory Interpretation More Broadly)

Wednesday, the California Supreme Court denied review in this case (for more on the lower court case, see this post by Jonathan Adler and this one by Ilya Somin); Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, joined by Justices Carol Corrigan and Joshua Groban: Our denial of a petition for review does not…

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People on legacy benefits could be due £1,500 back payments as legal team wins right to appeal

More than two million people missed out on the £20 weekly Universal Credit uplift during the pandemic.

Daily Record

Kuwaiti Court Annuls Decision to Disqualify Electoral Candidates

The Kuwaiti court of appeals annulled the disqualification of three parliamentary elections candidates and suspended decisions on five others until the constitutional court reaches a ruling on the “offender” law, thus allowing all the candidates to run in the elections that will be held on Sept. 29. The court, headed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

All in a days' work: Bus driver stoush heads to Court of Appeal

Bus drivers working split shifts are looking to the Court of Appeal to determine when their work day begins and ends.

Newsroom.co.nz

Prosecutors appealing in record numbers as sentences fall 'clearly short of community standards'

The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions succeeded in the majority of cases it took to the ACT Court of Appeal last financial year.

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What happened to Archie Battersbee – and what was his cause of death?

Archie Battersbee tragically died at the age of 12 on August 6 after being in a coma since April. His funeral is today, with Brits across the country to pay their respects alongside the family

Daily Mirror

Judge to review case of baby who tried to breathe after doctors said he was dead

Mr Justice Poole is due to begin reconsidering issues at a preliminary hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London

Wales Online

Jason Bran Lees convicted over 'sophisticated' computer hacking scheme has sentence reduced

An Adelaide man convicted of diverting $1.15 million from small businesses and charities in a "sophisticated" computer hacking scheme has had his sentence reduced.

ABC News

No increase in sentence for police officer who tried to rape woman

The court heard his victim was throttled, punched and had her hair pulled.

The Independent UK

Parents of baby at centre of life-support fight questioned by police over ‘non-accidental’ injuries

The couple remain ‘under investigation for the injuries caused’ to the boy, court hears

The Independent UK

Kiribati suspends all Court of Appeal judges after row over attempts to deport High Court justice David Lambourne to Australia

The decision effectively leaves the Pacific Island nation without any functioning high-level courts, deepening its legal and constitutional crisis.

ABC News

Family of father executed after wrongful murder conviction given police apology after 70 years

British Somali and former seaman Mahmood Mattan was hanged at Cardiff prison on 3 September 1952 despite having numberous alibis backed by witnesses and a lack of forensic evidence

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DWP court date announced over Universal Credit bonus and legacy benefits backpay appeal

A court hearing is set to take place to challenge an earlier DWP decision not to give Covid top-up payments to people on legacy benefits

Daily Record

Court date confirmed for legacy benefit claimants appeal over £20 weekly Universal Credit uplift back payments

Two million people on older-style benefits missed out more than £1,500 in extra DWP support during lockdown.

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought I would die before this moment’: one man’s fight against Singapore’s gay sex law

Tan Eng Hong was arrested under the law banning gay male sex and went on to challenge its constitutionality, a landmark moment for gay rights

Bangkok Post

Banyin's death sentence upheld

The Court of Appeal has confirmed the Criminal Court’s death sentence against former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn for the murder of billionaire construction firm owner Chuwong Sae Tang in a staged car crash in 2015.

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Mohinder Singh has prison sentence for Eastern Freeway crash reduced by three-and-a-half years

Mohinder Singh promised to testify against his former boss at an upcoming criminal trial in exchange for a reduced sentence.

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Pacific Island high courts are still dominated by foreign judges, but a constitutional crisis in Kiribati is exposing the risks

The battle in Kiribati between the government and an Australian-born High Court justice has caused a constitutional crisis, drawing attention to the role and vulnerabilities of foreign judges in the Pacific — and there's a lot of them. So why does the region still have so many serving on its…

Daily Mirror

Archie Battersbee's mum says online game that put son in coma has killed 82 kids

Archie Battersbee's mum Hollie Dance thinks there have been at least 82 deaths linked to the 'blackout challenge'. She accused social media companies of not doing enough to stop harmful content online

Newsroom.co.nz

Why the Lundy case will never go away

The nation was transfixed by scenes of Mark Lundy being held up at the funeral of his wife and child, only to be jailed for their murder two years later. Twenty years on, it's a case that won't go aw

ABC News

Crime and Corruption Commission to appeal decision to keep report into former Queensland public trustee secret

Queensland's corruption watchdog is taking its legal fight over a report into the state's former public trustee to the High Court of Australia.

ABC News

Hawkesdale residents' bid to stop wind farm project denied by Victorian Court of Appeal

A wind turbine farm spanning more than 2,000 hectares is a step closer for the south-west Victorian town of Hawkesdale, despite objections from a group of locals.

Wales Online

'I spent 11 years in jail for a murder I didn't commit'

Michael O'Brien, 52, spent 11 years and 43 days in jail for the murder of Mr Saunders whose body was found in the garden of his Cardiff home in 1987

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